A retail field guide to reading options data, dealer positioning, and institutional flow across equities, rates, FX, commodities, and crypto.
Stage Like the Desk is the framework I use to read the tape the way the desk reads it — before retail does. Every section answers the same three questions across each asset class: who is positioned, how the hedging is set, and where new money is moving.
You will leave with a Sunday Watchlist build you can run in under an hour, three trade plans (multi-week, swing, and intraday gamma regime), and a list of the mistakes that burn retail every cycle. This is a framework, not a signal service. If you have ever felt locked out of how markets actually work, this is the door.
Kai writes the weekly Relay and is building Stryk — the intraday version of this framework. If you read the guide and want it running live, that’s the product underneath.
Stryk runs the same three-layer read — positioning, dealer mechanics, and flow — in real time, with confidence-scored signals routed to your broker. Founding price is locked.
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